Saturday, February 24, 2018

First a reminder of the rules (you can skip this part if you already know them):

1. After signing up, the host gives your name and address to another participant

2. The other participant sends you 2 "ugly" papers and at least one ugly embellishment

3. You MUST use both papers; the embellishment(s) is optional

4. You are allowed to use other items as well, as long as the 2 "ugly" papers are included in the layout

5. You are allowed to alter the papers and, if used, the embellishment(s) but they must still be recognizable

February 2018 "UGLIES":

NOTE:

That glitter paper is the UGLIEST ugly I have EVER received.

I hate glitter...it gets everywhere and the BG paper was thick, like cardboard so I had A LOT of trouble cutting into it!

Anyway, this is what I came up with:

"Bird Whisperer"

Journaling: "Never a dull moment around here! Found this little guy, with a slightly injured wing, on my front porch this morning. At first he was frightened of me and then, when I went to give him some food, he just jumped into my hand! He was attached to me pretty much all morning which made it difficult to get ready for work, LOL He has a new home now though... after I left, David took him to our neighbors, who have birds, and they took him in. I'm glad he's safe but I miss him already! June 20th, 2017"

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Details:

As I said the glitter paper was a b**ch to work with... so I punch a few half-circles out w/ a small punch (which was VERY difficult) and glued a few random pieces of glitter in a few places on the layout. I added tape over the punched circles to prevent the glitter from falling off. I also used the full piece of the flower patterned paper, as my BG, and the huge feather embellishment.

I found a 12x12 bird patterned paper in my stash and used some of it as accent pieces (one being a very large accent piece!)Overall I'm happy.

BTW - I usually keep the leftovers of my uglies and put them in my scrap stash, but the rest of that glitter paper is going straight in the trash!

Saturday, February 3, 2018

Last month I played.... for the first time EVER... along w/ the "Counterfeit Kit Challenge" Blog.
I REALLY enjoyed it so I'm playing again this month.
Today I am sharing w/ you the kit I will be using.

BTW I realize "romantical" isn't an actual word, but it is a throwback to when I was a Kardashian fan and Khloe used the word and I liked it and it became a permanent part of my vocabulary; some things just stick!

Okay so this is how I decided what was to go into my kit:

The inspiration kit has lots of
-turquoise
-pink
-flowers
and
-romantic/love" items
It also has pops of yellow
so that was what I gravitated to when choosing my items.

I included some scraps and un-used items from my January Counterfeit Kit, and general scrap items from my stash because one of the main points of this challenge is to use up your stash.

I also added a few stamps because one of my goals this year is to use my stamps... I made sure the stamps that I chose went w/ the kit's overall theme though; same w/ my choice of washi tapes (gotta have my washi!).

The only thing I would say doesn't exactly go w/ the theme is my pet items. I included pet items, cuz I scrap my pets a lot... though I realized after the fact that I forgot the piggy items DOH!

Even though pet items don't quite go w/ the theme, unless you include the fact that I "love" my pets very much (that works, right?!), I did try to stick as close as I could to the color scheme.

I made this kit bigger than last month's because I felt too limited last month.

And yes, it is BIG but remember it's not anywhere near as big as having my entire scrappy arsenal to choose from so it will still, definitely, be a challenge!

I'm hoping to create a lot more projects than I did last month; last month I created 4 ... stay tuned to see if I do it!

And don't forget to visit the Counterfeit Blog to see other kit examples!